Music of the common tongue : survival and celebration in Afro-American music /
The author describes Music of the Common Tongue as a celebration of that form of music making which came into existence as a result of the enslavement of millions of Africans in the Americas. The author outlines the history of the encounter between the two great musical traditions of Africa and of E...
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London : New York :
John Calder ; Riverrun Press,
1987.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Music of the common tongue : |b survival and celebration in Afro-American music / |c Christopher Small. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Survival and celebration in Afro-American music |
| 264 | 1 | |a London : |b John Calder ; |a New York : |b Riverrun Press, |c 1987. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1987 | |
| 300 | |a 495 pages ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Introduction -- |g Chapter 1. |t Africans, Europeans and the making of music -- |g Chapter 2. |t On the ritual performance -- |g Chapter 3. |t Rituals for survival I : an extatic delight in psalmody -- |g Chapter 4. |t On cultures and their fusion -- |g Chapter 5. |t Styles of encounter I : a need in white culture -- |g Chapter 6. |t On value and values -- |g Chapter 7. |t Rituals for survival II : the sheer power of song -- |g Chapter 8. |t On literacy and nonliteracy -- |g Chapter 9. |t Styles of encounter II : adjusting to white culture -- |g Chapter 10. |t On improvisation -- |g Chapter 11. |t Styles of encounter III : a lot of loving going on -- |g Chapter 12. |t On the decline of music -- |g Chapter 13. |t Styles and rituals : wanting to be part of that music -- |g Chapter 14. |t On records and rewards -- |g Chapter 15. |t Styles of encounter IV : a very satisfactory black-music circle -- |g Chapter 16. |t Confronting the rational God -- |t Index. |
| 520 | |a The author describes Music of the Common Tongue as a celebration of that form of music making which came into existence as a result of the enslavement of millions of Africans in the Americas. The author outlines the history of the encounter between the two great musical traditions of Africa and of Europe, showing how musicians of African descent have, over nearly five centuries, made themselves at home in the European tradition, and have taken from it what they needed to serve their search for an identity and a community that they could call their own. In return musicians of European descent have found in this music of African origin and its musicians, models and identities they needed. He goes further, to show how, in contrast to the now degenerate European classical tradition. Afro-American music can become for all people a tool for the exploration, affirmation and celebration of identity, and a weapon of resistance against the increasingly oppressive power of the modern industrial state. | ||
| 520 | |a Much of this book may be interpreted as a direct attack by the author on the western classical tradition in which he was trained, but such an attack forms no part of his intention. When he does comment on the classical tradition, on its decline in the present century into impotence, and on the continuing use made of it by the powerful to support their dominance, it is in order to draw the reader's attention to the ways in which music functions in a society, and to the ways in which Afro-American music and musicians have been consistently downgraded by those in a position to shape the values of industrial societies and states. Afro-American music, the author says, is about survival, and may well be greatly needed to that end in the years to come; this book is unique in offering to non-specialist readers a social, historical and aesthetic framework in which to place their experience of that music. - Dust jacket. | ||
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